DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

This study challenges traditional models of solar system formation, which predict that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune should have nearly circular and flat orbits. The research suggests that ...

Electrical efficiency Image: University of Manchester, Solar Energy, CC BY 4.0 Scientists created a numerical model to describe the system, incorporating heat convection, conduction, radiation ...

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

To identify the best sites for wind and solar deployment, the method uses 1 km 2 grid-level analysis based on a multi-layered hybrid GIS-Bayesian Best Worst Method (BWM) model, which is a multi ...

ESO/L. Calçada The asteroid's orbit (red) is highly eccentric, suggesting it has been disturbed One model of Solar System formation, known as the grand tack, proposes that the early Solar System ...

For decades, astronomers have debated how the solar system's planets formed ... could point to signs of water and life Using computer models of the four outer planets, the team carried out ...